I actually stuck it out to read the whole article (all 16 pages -- and my head hurts).
Looks to me like someone who was bored used different color darts to score each area. No discussion of how they arrived at any conclusions. No criteria that could be evaluated. Combine that with a lot of statements I found myself either laughing at (because there was no basis for the statement) or crying at (because it was FUD or just completely wrong).
Let's see: security and encryption: winner -- Win2K? (did they fire all the kindergarten cryptographers? -- don't think so). Scripting support: winner -- Win2K? Oh, that's right, Linux doesn't have VBA so you can write virii. (knew there was some reason Win2K won this one, since I've never been able to script much of anything in a Windows machine). RH needs to support base Linux development more (is this guy living under a ROCK?).
The list is too long. And I noticed there was a link to write the author (he's so proud of his work). NOT!
Well, my e-mail address is here (david@pananix.com) if the author cares to discuss/justify any of what he wrote. Frankly, RH6.2, COL2.4, Debian, Slackware, et. al., all look like Linux to me. And it all looks a heck of a lot better on my desktop than anything M$ could put there.
BTW, anyone check out WebTESS? Explorer 5.0 and above only need apply. (where do you get that for Linux?)
Now that the clueless have chimed in, here's how my sailing partner keeps in touch while off-shore:
********** NOTICE: Mail to the sender of this message is via a (slow) radio link. PLEASE be brief and send only PLAIN TEXT. Consult the help file for your EMail program for information on how to send Plain Text messages. Also DO NOT copy the sender's messsage text back to them.
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I am a US citizen and wanted to do exactly the same thing. According to Julie Lever an Analyst at the DOC in the crypto export division, you need a license to do this (I'm in the process of obtaining one). I have servers in Panama I access via SSH. Even building SSH on them (d/l directly from Finland) is grey area. What she says is that _I_ doing the work constitute exporting encryption technology because I am a US citizen. I cannot even do the work if I live in Panama as long as I'm a US citizen.
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Looks to me like someone who was bored used different color darts to score each area. No discussion of how they arrived at any conclusions. No criteria that could be evaluated. Combine that with a lot of statements I found myself either laughing at (because there was no basis for the statement) or crying at (because it was FUD or just completely wrong).
Let's see: security and encryption: winner -- Win2K? (did they fire all the kindergarten cryptographers? -- don't think so). Scripting support: winner -- Win2K? Oh, that's right, Linux doesn't have VBA so you can write virii. (knew there was some reason Win2K won this one, since I've never been able to script much of anything in a Windows machine). RH needs to support base Linux development more (is this guy living under a ROCK?).
The list is too long. And I noticed there was a link to write the author (he's so proud of his work). NOT!
Well, my e-mail address is here (david@pananix.com) if the author cares to discuss/justify any of what he wrote. Frankly, RH6.2, COL2.4, Debian, Slackware, et. al., all look like Linux to me. And it all looks a heck of a lot better on my desktop than anything M$ could put there.
BTW, anyone check out WebTESS? Explorer 5.0 and above only need apply. (where do you get that for Linux?)
David A. Bandel
Now that the clueless have chimed in, here's how my sailing partner keeps in touch while off-shore:
**********
NOTICE: Mail to the sender of this message is via a
(slow) radio link. PLEASE be brief and send only PLAIN TEXT.
Consult the help file for your EMail program for information
on how to send Plain Text messages.
Also DO NOT copy the sender's messsage text back to them.
Processed by Amateur Radio Station W4NPX, w4npx@sprynet.com
using NetLink (c) 1996-99, W5EUT, KN6KB
For Help - http://www.win-net.org
Check it out.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
I am a US citizen and wanted to do exactly the same thing. According to Julie Lever an Analyst at the DOC in the crypto export division, you need a license to do this (I'm in the process of obtaining one). I have servers in Panama I access via SSH. Even building SSH on them (d/l directly from Finland) is grey area. What she says is that _I_ doing the work constitute exporting encryption technology because I am a US citizen. I cannot even do the work if I live in Panama as long as I'm a US citizen.